🪄 Branched Tabs for Visual Studio

Branched Tabs is a Visual Studio extension that automatically saves and restores your open documents per Git branch. Seamlessly switch branches and get back exactly to where you left off!

✨ Features

• 🔀 Automatically save open tabs per Git branch
• 📂 Restore tabs when switching branches
• ⚙️ Configurable behavior:
  • Restore only
  • Replace and keep unsaved
  • Replace all and save unsaved
• ✅ Lightweight and works silently in the background
• 🔧 Optional: Disable or customize behavior via settings

🛠 Installation

1. Open the .vsix file from Releases.

2. Restart Visual Studio.

⚙️ Configuration

Go to: Tools > Options > Branched Tabs

You’ll find options to:

• Enable/disable the extension
• Choose tab restore behavior:
  • Restore only
  • Replace and keep unsaved
  • Replace all and save unsaved

💡 How It Works

• On solution open or Git branch switch:
  • Previously open tabs for the current branch are restored
• On solution close or branch switch:
  • Current open files are saved to .vs/BranchTabs.json

Tabs are restored based on file paths. Unsaved files can optionally be saved automatically.

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Want to improve or extend the extension? Contributions are welcome!

1. Fork this repo
2. Clone and open the .sln file in Visual Studio
3. Build using the Experimental Instance of Visual Studio
4. Submit a PR!

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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📫 Contact

For issues or suggestions, feel free to open an issue or reach out via GitHub.